Looks like Hasbro completely redid the stock photos for Metroplex as compared to the old ones.

Toy accuracy > super glossy fake "metallic" airbrushed nonsense.

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Except the airbrushed pics are always the ones that end up on the back of the packaging. Take Soundwave for instance, the "stock photos" we've seen (the ones released alongside Repugnus's and Shortround's) were NOT airbrushed and were more toy-accurate like the ones we're seeing with Metroplex, but if you take a look at the pics on the back of Soundwave's box, they are different, air-brushed and glossy, photos.

So I doubt these new pics we're seeing of Menasor, Metroplex and Primus will be the ones to make it on the back of the packaging.

Looks like Hasbro completely redid the stock photos for Metroplex as compared to the old ones.

Toy accuracy > super glossy fake "metallic" airbrushed nonsense.

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I hope they end up using them on the back of the packaging instead of those metallic looking ones. That way we can know exactly how it'll look instead of opening it to find that it has a few less paint apps than the back of the box.

Except the airbrushed pics are always the ones that end up on the back of the packaging.

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I hope what we're seeing here marks the beginning of a new trend.

Packaging design is always done a few months in advance of stock photos being sent out to online retailers, so there's a chance future waves might indeed revert to the "realistic" look on the packaging.

Very interesting. Nothing earthshaking here, but I notice they pushed his
shoulders forward to give him a less gappy vehicle mode, as we saw on the
prototype that was recently on Ebay. They aren't pushed all the way forward
on the show, though, are they? What we have here, then, is an 'official
unofficial' transformation...